I think of the Deprogram as a lie-to-children. In physics classes, you first have to get kids to understand temperature, electric power, and motion at a basic practical level via flawed analogies, because real physics is weird and terrifying and inviting towards confusion and fallacies, its core is made out of complicated mathematics and unsolved problems, and if you hit sixth-graders with Fermi-Dirac statistics, U(1) gauge theory, and Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, you will traumatise 99% of them very quickly. So you lie to them to keep them from having nightmares about geometry, and if this means they think electrons are little balls and space is a rigid and absolute object until they enter university, then so be it.
Physics became such a slugfest for me early on, because I did a deepdive project on Higgs boson during middle school. It did not help that integration calculus became my weak point later on, but I did what I had to. Weird days.
I think of the Deprogram as a lie-to-children. In physics classes, you first have to get kids to understand temperature, electric power, and motion at a basic practical level via flawed analogies, because real physics is weird and terrifying and inviting towards confusion and fallacies, its core is made out of complicated mathematics and unsolved problems, and if you hit sixth-graders with Fermi-Dirac statistics, U(1) gauge theory, and Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, you will traumatise 99% of them very quickly. So you lie to them to keep them from having nightmares about geometry, and if this means they think electrons are little balls and space is a rigid and absolute object until they enter university, then so be it.
Physics became such a slugfest for me early on, because I did a deepdive project on Higgs boson during middle school. It did not help that integration calculus became my weak point later on, but I did what I had to. Weird days.